Musical Style Quotes

• We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

  Ennio Morricone

  Musical, Style, World

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• My musical style has changed dramatically from my first album until now. That's the real developmental shift. But my clothing has pretty much stayed the same. The important thing is to be real.

  Peter Cincotti

  Real, Musical, Style

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• It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.

  China Forbes

  Jumping, Style, Musical

  "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• It is fruitless to search for a single musical style, or even any blend of musical styles, that can assist all Christians with true worship. The followers of Jesus are a far too diverse group of people-which is exactly as it should be. We need, rather, to welcome any worship music that helps churches produce disciples of Jesus Christ.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Christian, Jesus, Worship Music

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• The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Self, Musical

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.

  King Louie

  Musical, Style, Listening

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• Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as well as the danza, danzón, and ultimately the danzón mambo and its offspring the cha-cha-chá.

  Ned Sublette

  Creating, Style, Black

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• I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

  Nellie McKay

  Musical, Style, Kind

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• To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself.  The equation was simple:  If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk.  'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control.  It was like songwriting; you just do it.  You want a record, you pay the pressing plant.  That's what it was all about.'

  Michael Azerrad

  Simple, Ethos, Indie Rock

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• Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

  Liz Phair

  Writing, Heart, Musical

  "An Extraordinary Interview". Interview with Dave DiMartino, www.oocities.org. April 25, 2004.

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• I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

  Colin Hay

  Musical, Style, Different

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• Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

  Andrew S. Gilbert

  Music, Style, Jazz

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• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

  Frank Zappa

  Change, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  Taylor Swift

  Careers, Musical, Style

  "Taylor Swift: Billboard Music Award Wins Were a 'Wonderful Feeling'" by Ray Rogers, www.billboard.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Artist, Rocks

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• Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Musical, Style

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